Package: lintian Version: 2.5.124 Severity: normal Hi!
I've been running lintian against the current HEAD of the bacula git https://salsa.debian.org/bacula-team/bacula l lintian --color always -EvIL +pedantic --no-tag-display-limit --profile debian/main --info bacula bacula_9.4.1-3_amd64.changes and I get the following warning: X: bacula-common: maintainer-script-supports-ancient-package-version postinst:20 9.0.7+dfsg-2 But bacula-common in oldstable was 5.2.6, while 9.0.7 is anything but ancient, it is even newer than the one in current stable: bacula-common | 5.2.6+dfsg-9 | oldoldstable | amd64 bacula-common | 5.2.6+dfsg-9.3 | oldstable | amd64 bacula-common | 7.4.3+dfsg-1+sid1~bpo8+1 | jessie-backports | amd64 bacula-common | 7.4.4+dfsg-6 | stable | amd64 bacula-common | 9.4.1-2~bpo9+1 | stretch-backports | amd64 bacula-common | 9.4.1-2 | testing | amd64 bacula-common | 9.4.1-2 | unstable | amd64 bacula_9.0.7+dfsg-2 was a version in unstable but never part of any release, but the code is still needed to clear up leftover stuff, it looks like this: 19: # remove temporary files erroneously created in / 20: if dpkg --compare-versions "$2" ge "9.0.5" && dpkg --compare-versions "$2" lt "9.0.7+dfsg-2~"; then 21: rm -f /bacula-console.conf.ucftmp-* 22: rm -f /bacula-director.conf.ucftmp-* 23: rm -f /bacula-fd.conf.ucftmp-* 24: rm -f /bacula-qt-console.conf.ucftmp-* 25: rm -f /bacula-sd.conf.ucftmp-* 26: fi Grüße, Sven. -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (400, 'testing'), (100, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.31.1-11 ii bzip2 1.0.6-9 ii diffstat 1.62-1 ii dpkg 1.19.4 ii dpkg-dev 1.19.4 ii file 1:5.35-2 ii gettext 0.19.8.1-9 ii gpg 2.2.12-1 ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.5 ii libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.34+b1 ii libarchive-zip-perl 1.64-1 ii libcgi-pm-perl 4.40-1 ii libclass-accessor-perl 0.51-1 ii libclone-perl 0.41-1+b1 pn libdigest-sha-perl <none> ii libdpkg-perl 1.19.4 ii libemail-valid-perl 1.202-1 ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.08-1 ii libio-async-perl 0.72-1 ii libipc-run-perl 20180523.0-1 ii liblist-moreutils-perl 0.416-1+b4 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-13 ii libtext-levenshtein-perl 0.13-1 ii libtimedate-perl 2.3000-2 ii liburi-perl 1.76-1 ii libxml-simple-perl 2.25-1 ii libyaml-libyaml-perl 0.76+repack-1 ii man-db 2.8.5-1 ii patchutils 0.3.4-2 ii perl 5.28.1-3 ii t1utils 1.41-3 ii xz-utils 5.2.2-1.3 Versions of packages lintian recommends: ii libperlio-gzip-perl 0.19-1+b5 Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.31.1-11 ii libhtml-parser-perl 3.72-3+b3 ii libtext-template-perl 1.54-1 -- no debconf information